Waterstones MD attacks ‘crushing consistency’ of chain bookstores Archive
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
In the UK, Waterstones managing director James Daunt has spoken out against the ‘crushing consistency’ of chain bookstores such as former Waterstones owner WH Smith, reports the Guardian. At a...
New Zealand Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced Archive
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Wish Child (Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press) Love as...
British Cover Design Awards 2017 winners announced Archive
Monday, 6 March 2017
The winners of the 2017 Academy of British Cover Design Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the winners are: Mass-market Jack Smyth for Girls on Fire (Robin Wasserman, Little,...
UK indie bookshop market shrinks for 11th straight year Archive
Monday, 6 March 2017
The number of independent bookstores in the UK fell in 2016 for the 11th straight year, with indie bookshop numbers almost halving over the period, reports the Bookseller. The Booksellers...
Small Australian presence at 2017 TIBE Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo reports from this year’s Taipei International Book Exhibition: The first Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) was held in 1987, which made this year’s fair the...
A quarter of kids used World Book Day token to purchase their first book Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
In the UK, a survey of children aged eight to 11 has found that 25% used a book token distributed on World Book Day (WBD) last year to buy a...
Greenwood, Pung to feature in ‘Women in the West’ exhibition Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
Authors Kerry Greenwood and Alice Pung are among the 10 featured subjects of the ‘Her Place: Women in the West’ exhibition at the MetroWest Gallery in the Melbourne suburb of...
Authors for second season of ‘The Garret’ podcast announced Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
The line-up for the second season of the Australian writers podcast ‘The Garret’, which runs weekly from 2 March to 13 April, has been announced. Writers to feature on the...
PRH to publish books by Obamas Archive
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Penguin Random House has acquired world rights to two books by former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama in a deal reportedly worth US$65m (A$85m). According...
Roberts-Orr appointed artistic director of EWF Archive
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Melbourne writer, editor and producer Izzy Roberts-Orr has been appointed artistic director and co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF). Roberts-Orr is a former co-director of the National Young Writers’...
Eckermann wins $215k Windham-Campbell Prize Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is one of eight winners of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize, which recognises English-language writers who ‘have left their mark on the world of literature or theatre’ and comes with...
VIPs announced for 2017 SWF Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2017 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May. The guests...
CBCA Notable Books for 2017 announced Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has released its list of Notable Books for 2017. Older Readers The Hounded (Simon Butters, Wakefield Press) Waer (Meg Caddy, Text) Words in...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2017 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Escape to Moon Islands (Mardi McConnochie, A&U) A Most Magical Girl (Karen Foxlee,...
HarperCollins introduces Facebook Messenger recommendation ‘bots’ Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
In the US, HarperCollins has introduced bot-powered book recommendation engines to the Messenger feature on two of its Facebook pages, reports Publishers Weekly. The BookGenie interface is available on the...
Riwoe, Wright win Viva la Novella Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Seizure has announced Mirandi Riwoe and Stephen Wright as the winners of its fifth Viva la Novella competition. Riwoe’s ‘The Fish Girl’ tells the story of an Indonesian girl ‘whose...
Four Australian publishers in the running for Bologna Prize Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Four Australian publishers have been nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The shortlisted publishers are Berbay Books, Lake Press, New...
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock (Janelle McCulloch, Echo) Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Strange, moody and yet also darkly comic, Picnic at Hanging Rock has enjoyed Australian classic status for close to 50 years. Is the novel fact or fiction? The question has...
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Bernadette Brennan, Text) Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
I don’t think there has been a more significant writer in my bookselling life than Helen Garner—Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books. Every work...
Body of work: Karen Andrews on ‘On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take’ Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Karen Andrews’ poetry collection, On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Miscellaneous Press, April), ‘tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace that you could be tricked...
System override: Elizabeth Tan on ‘Rubik’ Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik is a novel of interconnected short stories with plotlines that explore ‘a sprawling world of shady corporations, sentient memes and hackable bodies’. The result is ‘conceptually and structurally...
Pearson reports £2.6bn pre-tax loss Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
In the UK, Pearson has reported a pre-tax loss of £2.6bn (A$4.22bn) in 2016, attributed to challenges in the US education market, reports the Bookseller. Pearson also reported a rise...
Fair Work Commission announces cuts to Sunday, holiday rates for workers Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
Retail, hospitality and fast-food industry workers will have their Sunday and public holiday penalty rates reduced, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Full and part-time retail workers’ Sunday rates...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2016 winners announced Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
The winners of the 2016 Australian Romance Readers Awards, presented by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA), have been announced, with Anne Gracie named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the...
Kelada wins UWAP’s Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
Melbourne-based writer and academic Odette Kelada has won UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘Drawing Sybylla’. Kelada receives $10,000 and a publishing contract...
Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Four Egrets’ by Ronald Dzerigian ‘Sentence to Lilacs’ by Louis Klee...
Mammoth Mistake: Starring Olive Black Book One (Alex Miles, illus by Maude Guesne, Affirm Press) Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in a new series by author Alex Miles, who, among other things, has written for the hugely successful ‘Zac Power’ series. Olive Black is...
Movie mayhem: Alex Miles on ‘Mammoth Mistake’ Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in Alex Miles’ new ‘Olive Black’ series, about a 10-year-old actress who juggles friendships, rivals and on-set hijinks. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the...
Kent, Smith longlisted for Walter Scott Prize Archive
Friday, 24 February 2017
Australian author Hannah Kent and Australian-born, US-based Dominic Smith have been longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Kent is longlisted for The Good People (Picador) and...
Readings in the running for store design award Archive
Friday, 24 February 2017
Independent bookselling chain Readings is a finalist for the Customer Experience Store Design Award, as part of Inside Retail’s 2017 Retailer Awards. Readings was selected for the design of its...
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